"You are offered a device that lets you experience a perfectly happy life in a virtual reality simulation where you never feel pain or failure, but none of it is real. Do you plug in forever or stay in reality?"
Which choice do you make?
Which famous quote or philosopher supports your choice? 🎧@homeofbookquotes
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry."
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." — Steve Jobs 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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Attention is more than just focus, it’s how we meet our moments.
It’s the way we notice the warmth in someone’s voice when they say our name, the way food tastes different when eaten barefoot in the backyard on a humid evening, the way song lyrics hit differently when they mirror something we’ve lived through, the “it’s all going to be alright-ness” we feel when we hear the tinkling laughter of children as a long, hot day comes to an end.
Attention is presence. And presence isn’t just powerful, it can be radical. In a world where attention is monetized, captured, and manipulated, reclaiming it is an act of resistance.
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
— Albert Einstein
"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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FAITH & LITERATURE“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament…”
There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.
└─ J.R.R. Tolkien
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"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." — Confucius 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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Every evening, an old man lit a small lantern outside his house.
People often asked him, “Why do you light it? The road is already bright with the moon.”
He would only smile.
One winter night, a traveler lost his way. The wind was cold, and the village seemed far away. Then, through the darkness, he saw the little lantern.
He followed its gentle light and found the old man’s house.
The next morning, the traveler thanked him. “Your lantern saved me.”
The old man shook his head.
“No,” he said softly. “The lantern did not save you. You simply knew to follow the light.”
Years passed. The old man grew tired, and one evening he could no longer walk outside to light his lantern.
So the traveler, who had never forgotten that night, returned to the village.
He picked up the lantern, carried it outside, and lit it.
The road was still bright with moonlight.
But somewhere, someone might still be lost.
And sometimes, that is reason enough to keep a light burning. 🎧@homeofbookquotes
Time is the school in which we learn. Time is the fire in which we burn
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"I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the largest to me, and that is myself,
And if I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten millions of years,
I can cheerfully take it now, with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
My tongue is every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-five years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death." 🎧@homeofbookquotes
“What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you’re a poet. But there isn’t one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn’t any formula for it.” 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." — Ralph Waldo Emerson 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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True enjoyment of your life never coexists with the need to let people know how much you’re enjoying it.
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You cannot hold water in a closed fist. The harder you squeeze a person, the faster they slip through your fingers. 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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"Out of the night that covers me, / Black as the pit from pole to pole, / I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul. / In the fell clutch of circumstance / I have not winced nor cried aloud. / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed."
— William Ernest Henley, Invictus 🎧@homeofbookquotes
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." — Albert Einstein
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." — Anaïs Nin
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." — Socrates 🎧@homeofbookquotes
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique." — Martha Graham 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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"The heavy burden: the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take his leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half-real."
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 🎧@homeofbookquotes
Tend to the small things with the same effort and attention to detail as you would the big things. Done consistently, you crystallize the faculty of thoroughness within yourself that becomes your normal mode of operation. You enter a perpetual state of being “locked in.”
Less effort is needed to bring that faculty online as it gradually rises into a state of unconscious competence.
Not only do you reap the right fruits when your efforts are thoroughly applied, but the level of significance you attach to big events also diminishes. This frees the energy previously spent managing the stakes or fearing outcomes and redirects it toward action.
The big things and the small things begin to feel similar energetically, which enables you to act with clean intention, i.e., you spend less energy worrying about the outcome or being hypervigilant.
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"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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“When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.” 🎧@homeofbookquotes
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Rule breaking is addictive when it doesn't hurt anyone, but genuinely improves your life in a significantly measurable way that would not be possible had you listened to general guidance, and only followed the paths laid out for you.
It is at this point you just start to see the great mass of rule followers, "the sheep" and "the normies" as little more than cowards too unimaginative and afraid to risk themselves, to see what will happen if they start breaking rules and taking risks in the pursuit of a much greater, but otherwise unachievable life.
It is very simple. Do the rules in place allow you to flourish? Are they actually conducive to your existence? Do they improve things for you? Do they protect you? No? Then why are you following them? You owe it to yourself to disobey and you owe it to yourself to say no, because you have rightfully recognised the authority you are under is not righteous, and has failed in its duty of care to you.
A rule is not correct simply because it is a rule. A rule is a control measure put in place to preserve a pre-existing system or status quo, and so if you are suffering horribly under it, then clearly it has not been designed with, or otherwise administered and governed with your interests in mind, and so you owe it to yourself to do what is necessary for yourself.
You do not owe a lover, a parent, your family, your boss, an organisation, the government or any system at any scale for that matter your loyalty and obedience, if that system, institution, tribe or person does not properly advocate for, protect, or further your interests. And so where what tries to control you does not truly and deeply care for you, does not provide for you - and is not aligned with your best interests and needs - you must reject its authority as rightful and instead set about on doing what is right for yourself.
You must stick up your middle finger, and say fuck you and fuckoff, to carve out your own path instead.
And not because you glamorise rebelliousness and are horny for defiance for its own sake either, but because you have one life, and you intend to live it fully and well. You are stubborn. You won't let your dreams be crushed. You will bend reality to your will. You will make what you want come true.
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Tough love can be the highest form of love you offer someone, even if it ultimately sours the relationship.
People often know what they need to do; they just don't want to face that truth. They will cover themselves with all manner of reasonings, seeking confirmation from their external world that their justifications are correct to avoid taking responsibility.
If you extend empathy and compassion where it isn't warranted, you may unknowingly reinforce their weakness or sense of victimhood.
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من يخاف صعود الجبال يعش أبداً الدهر بين الحفر (Waman yatahayyab su'uda al-jibal ya'ish abada al-dahri bayna al-hufari) — “He who is scared of climbing mountains lives among hills forever. 🎧@homeofbookquotes”
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